 However, if his true name was Sanderson, he returned to Philadelphia  and lived and worked in South Philadelphia at various jobs.According to Philadelphia city directories of the period, he worked as a laborer, cook, whitewasher and coachman.Aaron Sanderson, described as a black male widower, born Virginia, aged seventy, who worked as a "calsiminer" calciminer—another term for whitewasher—and resided at 1357 Kater Street in South Philadelphia, died on January 9, 1886, of heart disease and was buried four days later at the former Lebanon Cemetery.